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I was recently gifted a Steam Deck for Christmas! If you only had a budget of, let's say 50 bucks, what would you get? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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My Steam library basically only consists of Witcher 3 and Spiritfarer. I also was gifted a Humble Bundle game for Batman Arkham Knight.

I’m debating on getting Elden Ring and Cyberpunk (both without DLC).

Marvel’s Spider-Man and FF7 Interograde also look like a good value right now for 40 bucks total.

Edit, ended up doing the following:

Becoming a Steam Family member with my dad and buying the following.

FFVII Retrograde
Mass Effect Legendary
Divinity 1 and 2
Caveblazers
Portal 2
Hollow Knight

I also set up emudeck and transferred all my GBA, GBC, and GCN games that I have ROMS for.

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[–] kynzo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

was gonna recommend considering piracy, but since its against the rules I will respect that and recommend some of my favorite games i play on the SD and my PC instead:

very chill relaxing game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1455840/Dorfromantik/
one of my favorite games of all time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/Deep_Rock_Galactic/ (ROCK AND STONE!)
really good online FPS (i dont actually play this one the sd as i dont like playing it with a controller but ive met people on there that do): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2073850/THE_FINALS/
and for lasts a non steam game: Minecraft, no not bedrock edition (i dont think that even runs on linux well) java. install the prism launcher and then with that use a modpack with the controlify mod, it has built in steamdeck support. Such a cozy experience playing MC on the Steamdeck, especially with a friend that you're next to irl.

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[–] TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Re: flying the Jolly Roger

I probably will for more expensive games I own on other platforms, such as Jedi Survivor and Expedition 33.

My main issue is that I actually don’t have a ton of data storage since I opted for the very 256 LCD model and need to buy a larger SD card or do some physical tinkering to replace the SSD.

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[–] kynzo@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

From what I've seen replacing the SSD really ain't that hard. But the SD card speeds are not that bad for many lighter games.

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[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

was gonna recommend considering piracy,

Yeah, my first thought was modchip!

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[–] kynzo@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

I don't think you know much about the steam deck haha

It is an actual computer with Linux on it, you can even install windows if you're dumb enough to do that. You do not need a modchip to pirate or mod games on it. You do it like you would on any other Linux pc with wine.

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[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago

Read switch.

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